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I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
There are too many souls of wood not to love those wooden characters who do indeed have a soul.
There's a lot of pressure and criticism in a crisis, but you can't miss the wood for the trees.
When we used the small-faced racquets and wood racquets, we had to use every part of the court.
I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.
I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.
Wood carving is such an amazing skill and very underrated; once you cut it, it's hard to go back.
I kind of have my little OCD wood shed at my house where everything is just right when I go write.
Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.
Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.
I seem to be landing really great locations on a lot of my work. I hope that continues, knock on wood.
Can I throw harder than Joe Wood? Listen mister, no man alive can throw any harder than Smokey Joe Wood.
How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.
Obviously, there's not as much flex in a wood bat as in a metal bat, so I'm still trying to adjust to that.
One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.
The greatest thing my father left me was a love for cutting wood - my love for sawing, especially pine wood.
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
Knock on wood, my groupies tend to be very artistic, creative people - sometimes way more creative than I am.
I hate to say it because I feel like it might be a jinx, but yes - knock on wood - I have never broken a bone.
You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.
Trying to understand superstition rationally is like trying to pick up something made of wood by using a magnet.
Wood burns because it has the proper stuff in it; and a man becomes famous because he has the proper stuff in him.
Sometimes it's best to speak from ignorance: that way, you can see the wood without being distracted by the trees.
I've had tinnitus for about ten years, and since I started protecting my ears it hasn't got any worse - touch wood.
A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.
The paintings to me are always canvas; sculpture has always been metal, though I have made sculpture in wood, also.
Knock wood, but I started acting professionally when I was 16, and I've always been able to support myself since then.
If you're trying to raise a son, it gives you a chance to say things like, 'Chop your own wood; it will warm you twice.'
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
My plan is to open five restaurants based on the five elements in Chinese philosophy: wood, water, fire, earth and metal.
The American education system couldn't be more badly directed or poorly funded if the Secretary of Education were Ed Wood.
I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood in the backyard growing up.
What would people be surprised to know about me? That I love cooking and chopping wood for the heating system in my house.
A very big percentage of small-scale construction is plastic. But it's some horrible beige plastic made to look like wood.
When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jittery vortices in the air.
I seem to - knock on wood - land on my feet and work, but you can never get too comfortable, and that's kind of a good thing.
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.
If you think modernity is mostly to blame for pollution, visit Africa where people still burn wood and dung as an energy source.
I spend a lot of time doing carpentry. Sometimes there is nothing that gives me the contentment that sawing a piece of wood does.
I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
The fact that these fans don't understand that a ring is comprised of steel, metal beams, wood, and a thin sheet mat, and that's it.
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
I thought of America as Natalie Wood and Bob Wagner sprawled on the edge of a Hollywood swimming pool biting into the same red apple.
When you look at starting pitchers, once they make it through year four, then - knock on wood - you see a lot of injury risk go down.
Soon as I could play one guitar chord and laid my ear upon that wood, I was gone. My soul was sold. Music was everything from then on.
I was in 'Babes in the Wood' at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow in the Eighties. I was the villain - the wicked Sheriff of Nottingham.